Graham Hudspeth got his start in garage bands in and around Bowling Green during the 1970s. He and Jack Montgomery have performed together as Shadowdancer. Hudspeth did a stint with the local band Outskirts as well as the Kyle Daniel Band. A Yank and a Prod is a solo recording released in 2006 and includes:

Sheet music for voice, piano and ukulele owned by Mary Clyde Huntsman of Bowling Green. Ain't Misbehavin' was written in 1929, lyric by Andy Razaf; music by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks. Waller recorded the song in 1929. This piece refers to the song's inclusion in the off-broadway all musical revue Connie's Hot Chocolates.

This copy was owned by Bowling Green musician Mary Clyde Huntsman. She has written "Mary's Merry Makers" on the front cover.

Edmonton, Kentucky group Black Stone Cherry's two track demo of Blind Man. The group is made up of John Fred Young (drums), Jon Lawhorn (guitar and vocals), Chris Robertson (guitar and vocals) and Ben Wells (guitar and vocals). Young is the son of Kentucky Headhunter Richard and is carrying on the family tradition. The group has toured with Def Leppard and Whitesnake.

Warren County native A.G. Slaughter was the namesake of the Arthur Gregory Band. He and bandmates Dave Blair and Gary Logan wrote all their own songs. Slaughter died in Bowling Green Oct. 25, 1992 as a result of a house fire.

Sheet music for Castle House Rag introduced by Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle. Vernon Castle was a vaudeville performer who met and married dancer Irene Foote. Together they became popular in the ragtime dance movement through their Broadway shows. This sheet music owned by Mary Clyde Huntsman of Bowling Green is an example of the type of music that southern Kentuckians were playing for themselves at home.

Rocky Hill native, WKU alum and professor, John Martin is a guitar freelance artist who also fronts his own John Martin trio. This album was recorded at Tedesco's Restaurant in Bowling Green and features musicians Webb Hendrix on drums and Dave Allen on bass.

Glasgow native and WKU alum Billy Vaughn found fame with the Hilltoppers Quartet in 1952 when he asked three other students to record one of his songs. The rest, as they say, is history. Vaughn went on to form his on big band, tour the country and release over 25 albums of jazz and pop standards. This record released in 1957 is no exception. It contains standards by composers Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Indian Love Call

Dream

Sweet and Lovely

Time on My Hands

Night and Day

I'm in the Mood for Love

My Melancholy Baby

Moonglow

Intermezzo

I'll Get By

Stardust

Read more about Vaughn in Don Thomason's article "Billy Vaughn" in The Amplifier, February 2007 available in the Kentucky Library.

Solo recording by Tommy Womack, former member of bands Government Cheese and the bis-quits. This album are the reflections of a singer, song-writer performer who has returnred to the 8 to 5 routine to stay afloat.

1. A Songwriter's Prayer

2. If That's All There is to See

3. Nice Day

4. 25 Years Ago

5. Too Much Month at the End of the Xanax

6. I'm Never Gonna Be a Rock Star

7. I Want a Cigarette

8. I Couldn't Care Less

9. Alpha Male and the Canine Mystery Blood

10. Fluorescent Light Blues

11. A Cockroach After the Bomb

12. Everything's Coming Up Roses Again

13. Nice Day (Reprise)

See also Amplifier articles "Tommy Womack: There I Said It!" by Don Thomason, February 2007 and Jack Montgomery's "Music from the Hill: Tommy Womack, A Java City Star," October 2009, available in the Kentucky Library.